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Happy New Year! I hope every­one sur­vived the hol­i­day sea­son.  We’re tak­ing down our tree tomor­row, so Christ­mas will offi­cially be over for us– boo!  Father Christ­mas was very good to Squidge and it was a real treat to expe­ri­ence it with her.  She loves all of her toys and I am happy to report that none of them needed bat­ter­ies! Although my sis­ter (which reminds me I need to send her some money, DOH!!) did tell me she’s sent me a pack­age WITH bat­ter­ies included… ah!

We stuck pretty close to home these last cou­ple of weeks.  It’s been snow­ing a lot here which is unusual so the roads have been pretty bad.  I’ve actu­ally been shocked by the con­di­tion of the roads.  I haven’t seen any plows or grit­ters and pavement/sidewalks are com­pletely impass­able! I’ve also noticed that stores don’t sand/salt the lots so it’s freak­ing dan­ger­ous!  I sup­pose it’s another exam­ple of how dif­fer­ent things are here in the UK.

We’ve been hard at work on the bath­room and are almost done! Some of you might be snort­ing in dis­be­lief at this, but really and truly we just need to hang the toi­let roll thingam­abob and the towel rack and we are done! Oh we’re still wait­ing for the shower screen we ordered to arrive but really all done as far as I’m con­cerned! On the the bed­room! I’m order­ing the skip(dumpster) tomor­row for the major bed­room clean out and remodel. HELLO new bed!!  Wal has text­books that are over 20 years old.  I have told him that I will be dump­ing any text book older that 15 yrs! LOL, you should have seen him go ashen when I said that! Aah my lit­tle pack rat thinks I’m jok­ing.… mwahahahaha

Are any of you making/made any new years res­o­lu­tions?  I don’t think I’m going to.  I’m going to con­tinue to to what I have been doing– rais­ing my child, lov­ing my man, miss­ing my fam­ily back in the US.  I’m not doing a weight loss goal as I’m work­ing on that already.  This year I think is going to be a tran­si­tion year for us here at Casa da Squidge.  My last year as a stay at home mama as my baby will be start­ing reception(kindergarten) in Sep­tem­ber.  I’m hop­ing to enjoy this time as it will all too soon be over.  I’m pray­ing with all my might we finally move out of our cramped lit­tle house this year.  Con­sid­er­ing I’ve been wish­ing  and pray­ing with all my might for the past 4 years for this to hap­pen I’m really not hold­ing my breath!